Sentences with phrase «field painting means»

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Even so, we are far more likely to paint for our readers a broad range of figurative meaning by keeping close to the literal field wherein that meaning takes root and flourishes, than by dispensing with the literal, and losing it and much of the figurative to boot.

She pictures and explains the development, facts, goals, and meaning of American Color Field and its artists, including their very characteristic painting technique.

Her early work, with its sparely applied geometries and gently stated means, owes a clear debt to Rothko's mature paintings: those hovering fields of color that radiate heat, light, and mystery.

As much as he wrote about art during his lifetime, as in his book, The Artist's Reality: Philosophies on Art, written about 1940 - 41, he began to stop explaining the meaning of his work with his color field paintings, claiming that «Silence is so accurate.»

Frankenthaler, Louis and Noland formed the core of a group known as the colour field painters, though the critic Clement Greenberg preferred one of his own clunking coinages, «post-painterly abstractionists», meaning that after the «painterly» surfaces of the abstract expressionists, the purely colour - based paintings of Noland and the others marked out a different and more advanced stage of art's march to absolute abstraction.

There was also increased recognition for significant artists whose importance might have been overshadowed previously, such as 84 - year - old Sam Gilliam, whose abstract «color field» painting at New York's Mnuchin gallery sported a red dot sticker — meaning it was sold — early on.

[1] To that end, this exhibition explores the expanded field of painting through a wide range of works in a variety of media (i.e., installation, video, sculpture, and painting) that provide fertile territory for examining the legacy and meaning of painting and painterly practices in contemporary art today.

Like Rauschenberg's Elemental Sculptures, which were meant to be manipulated and can be installed in various positions, Untitled [black painting with portal form] can be hung either horizontally or vertically, tempering the viewer's corporeal relationship to a large, imposing, matte black form by rearranging the compositional field.10 When the work is displayed horizontally (fifty - four inches wide by fifty - one inches high), the rectangular center of the painting is vertically positioned, suggesting a uniformly darkened doorway, window, or portal.

In this painting, the colors and textures in a field of wild grasses are transformed into new shapes and brushstrokes, which subsequently undergo experimental development, taking on new visual meaning, in what then becomes the painting.

It might mean painting the entire canvas in a field of single colour, or no colour at all.

The paintings — many are approximately the size of a typical hardcover book — convey an intimacy (they are meant to be seen up close), while the allover fields evoke an expansiveness that exceeds the scope of our field of vision.

The show features about 40 color field paintings and explores their sources, meaning, and impact.

Fusing the visual idioms of graffiti, Abstract Expressionism, and Color Field painting is no mean feat, but Curry seems to have accomplished it here in vibrant paintings such as Command Minus and Head Trip.

In the exhibition «Ground», James Hyde uses the flat field of painting as a topological arena that ties together the physical substance of painting and the ground on which it is laid, extracting spatial dimensions and new meanings from this relationship.

Though these paintings are technically proficient, the sheer number of landscape painters working today means it's a field that's hard to stand out in.

Further major series of paintings include 64 «Beside the Sea» canvases (1962 — 1968), in which Motherwell mirrored the spray of the sea by splashing oil paint onto rag paper with great force; and «Open» (1967 — 1972), his response to the colour - field painters of the 1960s, described by him as «a painted plane beautifully divided by minimal means, the essence of line drawing».

Within the color field abstract painting, the color was the main subject of the paintings, while any objective context or the meaning is discarded.

«Naturalistic Landscape Painting and the Decline of Deference» «The Artisanal Worldview in the Paintings of John Crome» «Constable's Meanings: Iconography and the Aesthetic» «The Field of Waterloo Exposed: Turner, Byron, and the Politics of Reaction»

The term «landscape painting» comes from the Dutch word «landschap», meaning «a patch of ground», and denotes any picture whose main subject is the depiction of a scenic view, such as fields, hillscapes, mountain - scapes, trees, riverscapes, forests, sea views and seascapes.

Kim - Cohen's theory of an «expanded sonic practice» transposes Krauss» argument from her famous essay «Sculpture in the Expanded Field» into the register of sound art. 8 In that essay (and elsewhere), Krauss argues that the expanded situation of sculpture (meaning minimalist works, earthworks, installations and such) challenges the Modernist account of the artwork — perhaps epitomized in Clement Greenberg's famous essay, «Modernist Painting.»

Largely the result of generous donors — primarily Andrew W. Mellon, P. A. B. Widener, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, and Paul Mellon — the Gallery's collection of British paintings, though by no means a comprehensive survey of the field, stands as a distinguished representation of the accomplishments of that great national school.

Greenberg was also inspired by the concept of color field painting, although there were some people who thought of this technique as merely a different means of presenting an older approach to sublime landscapes.

He employs a variety of means, from drawing in paint to laying down a field of variously sized splashed dots.

Helen Frankenthaler, as I write this, is still with us, so that means Color Field Painting is alive — and hopefully well, too.

Peter Halley, for one, took up color - field painting back when it meant something, but what exactly did it mean, other than painting itself?